Australian tablet and 2-in-1 sales contracted a sharp 25% year-on-year in Q1, and 40% sequentially, but IDC believes there are still signs of life in the market. [ + ]

The University of Sydney's new Artemis high-performance computer has been designed in collaboration with Dell to meet the requirements of the university's researchers. [ + ]

Apple has unveiled more details about its upcoming iOS 9 release, giving a preview of new iPhone, iPad and iPod touch software that will be available later this year. [ + ]

The DCD Converged Australia conference is returning for its 6th year at the Australian Tech Park on 3-4 August 2015, featuring five industry-focused tracks of cutting-edge content from renowned speakers. [ + ]

Hackers targeted the family of a senior employee at a Brisbane-based company, TPG forms Wondercom to sell wholesale FTTB and Newsat's CEO and CFO sacked after company goes into administration. [ + ]

OpenLearning has been awarded a contract to deliver Australia's first federal government massive open online course, which will train thousands of government employees in regulatory impact analysis. [ + ]

The security perimeter has shifted from firewalls to identity management and now to content management, with the aim of preventing another Edward Snowden from succeeding. [ + ]

The federal DTO is seeking to improve the experience of interacting with government through analytics, while the ACT Govt is upgrading its IT platform and NSW has outsourced its shared services functions. [ + ]

A new Android exploit injects pop-ups and crashes apps, vendors to pay $677 million in a price-fixing case and Intel buys Altera for $21 billion. [ + ]

Some 2.2 million Australians have signed up for a Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) - now renamed a MyHealth record - and around 10,000 new people are applying per week. [ + ]

For the 'always-on business', the old 3-2-1-0 backup rule is still king - as long as it is balanced with the right mix of IT tools to manage the ever-changing demands in technology. [ + ]

Optus Wholesale and Satellite has entered a collaboration with Level 3 to help move online video and other content closer to Australians via content delivery networks (CDNs). [ + ]

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will be available from 29 July in 190 markets globally as a free upgrade to customers running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. [ + ]

Cloud email security and archiving vendor Mimecast will shortly open two data centres in New South Wales to support its Australian operations. [ + ]

Gartner expects Australian BPM revenues to increase 2.4% this year, below the global average. The firm is meanwhile predicting solid growth in sales of non-smartphone connected devices. [ + ]